רֶחֶםrechem

womb

Pronunciation: rekh'-em · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7358

Meanings

1. womb (Genesis 49:25; Jeremiah 20:17; Job 24:20)

2. womb-man, woman-slave (Judges 5:30)

Same root

רָחַםrâcham · H7355to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate
רַחַםracham · H7356compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden

Where it appears

Appears 26 times in the Bible.

Genesis 20:18 For the Lord had caused all the women to be infertile because of what happened with Abraham’s wife, Sarah.
Genesis 29:31 When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive.
Genesis 30:22 Then God remembered Rachel’s plight and answered her prayers by enabling her to have children.
Exodus 13:2 “Dedicate to me every firstborn among the Israelites. The first offspring to be born, of both humans and animals, belongs to me.”
Exodus 13:12 you must present all firstborn sons and firstborn male animals to the Lord, for they belong to him.
Exodus 13:15 Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, so the Lord killed all the firstborn males throughout the land of Egypt, both people and animals. That is why I now sacrifice all the firstborn males to the Lord—except that the firstborn sons are always bought back.’

See every passage

Genesis 20:18, 29:31, 30:22
Exodus 13:2, 13:12, 13:15, 34:19
Numbers 3:12, 8:16, 12:12, 18:15
1 Samuel 1:5, 1:6
Job 3:11, 10:18, 24:20, 31:15, 38:8
Psalms 22:10, 58:3, 110:3
Jeremiah 1:5, 20:17, 20:18
Hosea 9:14

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).